The Daily Create

The DS106 Daily Create is at https://daily.ds106.us/ Somewhat uniquely, this prompting initiative started as a part of a university course in 2012.

It proposes inspirational cues daily, and is not focused only on music, but is suitable for all art fields. Some cues are doable in many forms and some are very specific. Additional gamification is achieved through leader boards which count the number of participations.

Audio category

At the time of writing, about 3% of prompts were marked as "audio" type, while the pool was dominated by "photography", "visual", and "writing". The "audio" type may mean also making art from musical inspiration. Interacting with audio apps is also popular, as it is accessible while leading to attractive sound results.

The prompts are licensed as Creative Commons, but there is a lot of embedded media in use, so probably the licensing is more complicated, an ellipse "[…]" will be used for those. Below is a selection of prompts suitable for live, improvisational performance, with 1 of them tagged for inclusion in the full list of games.

Performable audio prompts

#3962 Like Michael Jackson

#3962 Like Michael Jackson

Let us hear your Michael Jackson imitation. Sing some words or record some of his typical short sounds ( I-A, sigh ) and share it with us.

#3911 Wikimedia asks for the sound of all knowledge… Easy!?

#3911 Wikimedia asks for the sound of all knowledge… Easy!?

The Wikimedia foundation is running a contest worthy of DS106 creative response. This is a call to “create the sound of all human knowledge”. [Propose a sound logo for Wikimedia]

#3827 What was your Defining Moment?

#3827 What was your Defining Moment?

So you had a plan. Things changed. What was your Defining Moment?

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Write, cartoon, video or gif your way toward explaining that moment clearly. Graduations, hospital stays, and weddings might be easier because of the iconic dress, but how will you show that universal experience uniquely YOUR Defining Moment. Don’t underestimate the power of a thoughtful blog post.

#3821 One Take Sound Story of Emergence With No Dialogue

#3821 One Take Sound Story of Emergence With No Dialogue

Tell an audio story in sounds only. No narrator, no dialogue, just sounds pieced together. In one take.

What can your story say about the MYFest22 theme of “emergence”? Who is emerging? What happens to them? Where do they go?

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Before you record, look around where you are and look for objects and items you can use to make the sounds. Then think of what kind of action you might tell- the one above might be a writer lost for words, stuck, until they make a change.

#2018 Share a Horror Sound

#2018 Share a Horror Sound

Find something in your environment that makes a creepy, horror like sound.

#1745 Fake airplane sounds

#1745 Fake airplane sounds

Make the sound of an airplane with your voice or lips or any other sounds you can manufacture.

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Pick your sounds, either propellers or jet engine. Starting up or flying by. All is okay. For ease of use, you can use the video record function of Twitter to record your voice. If you don’t want to be on screen, just point the camera at a wall or at the floor.

#1722 Your Commuting Sounds

#1722 Your Commuting Sounds

Share an audio flavor of your commute.

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What is your journey like from home to work or school or wherever you go during the day? Express it in audio, and sound only, no voices. Make us guess what the mode of travel is and or where.

#1475 Can’t You Hear Me Knocking?

#1475 Can’t You Hear Me Knocking?

Capture the audio sounds of you knocking on a door, or a table, or some other material. Go for ordinary or go for strange (you know which we like).

If it helps, crank the Rolling Stones Can’t You Hear Me Knocking on your headphones (but no you cannot use that song as a Daily Create, you gotta create it yerself)

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#1404 Your theme song

#1404 Your theme song

Do you have a theme song? If so, what is that song? Is it just one, or do you have multiple songs for different purposes? Create an inspirational poster with favourite lyrics from your theme song or sing the song and record an audio file.

#1380 Shakespearean actors day!

#1380 Shakespearean actors day!

Pick some song lyrics you love and speak the lines as if you were in a Shakespeare’s play. Let that song sound like Hamlet!

Record it and share the audio with us.

#1356 We missed talk like a pirate day!

#1356 We missed talk like a pirate day!

Never mind! We can still celebrate and talk like a pirate today. Brush up on the lingo and learn about the International Talk Like A Pirate Day (yes, it is a thing and no, we are not making it up).

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Tell us story talking like a pirate. Post your audio file in your blog or SoundCloud or anywhere but remember to tweet.

#1336 Alternative Happy Birthday Song

#1336 Alternative Happy Birthday Song

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“Day of Birth Happy to You!” aka – Practice in avoiding Copyright issues! Copyright and fair use come to the front in many #ds106 creations and a good example is the song Happy Birthday, it can cost a production 10K or more to use it.
Record your own original alternative to the song Happy Birthday and share the audio file. For inspiration watch the video above.

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See also other prompting initiatives:

• Disquiet Junto — a prompting series with a "high concept" approach
• Music Weeklies — online community with "music for listening" style and VGM connections

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21 cues from this source

Random scores with cues from this source:

A Single Random Cue ♢ GOTO Score ♢ Bubbles ♢ Horizontal Vanilla

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